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Cornell students condemn ‘build a wall’ as ‘hate speech’

Cornell students condemn ‘build a wall’ as ‘hate speech’

In another attack on President Donald Trump’s tough immigration policy championing the phrase “build a wall,” Cornell University students are condemning the chant as “hate speech” against illegal immigrants.

Much of the controversy is concentrated around the commander-in-chief’s push to stop DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] dead in its tracks.

“Members of Cornell University’s student assembly (SA) are calling on university administrators to punish members of a fraternity who chanted ‘build a wall’ last week following President Donald Trump’s decision to end DACA,” TheBlaze announced. “Last Wednesday, one day after Trump’s decision, Latino students heard members of the Zeta Psi fraternity chanting ‘build the wall’ – a reference to Trump’s promise to build a wall on the southern U.S.-Mexico border.”

Support illegal immigration … or else

Last Thursday, Cornell’s student assembly got together on campus to warn Republicans and other conservative Trump supporters pushing his immigration policy that there will be dire consequences for those who profess they want to keep immigrants from entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico.

Irving Torres – an 18-year-old Hispanic student at Cornell – insisted that enforcing the law against illegal immigrants is nothing less than hateful intimidation.

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“I had to sit there as a leader of my community and watch students who just got here feel unsafe and attacked,” Torres told those in attendance at the campus gathering, according to the Cornel Daily Sun. “I come to you – as those who are elected to represent our community – to ask what are you going to do and what are you going to say. I’m asking you to listen to me and look at me.”

In a show of support for Torres’ words, numerous Leftist students on campus, including Mayra Valdez – an 18-year-old undesignated at-large representative – insisted that there should be dire consequences for those on campus who support the building of the border wall … saying that such backing is a form of “verbal marginalization.”

“It’s disgusting that hate speech like this is not followed up with repercussions,” Valdez expressed before the Cornell crowd, according to the Sun.

Cornell’s president of SA – Jung Won Kim – was quick to try and accommodate the politically correct protesters standing against illegal immigration control, reminding listeners about his group’s prior attempts to promote diversity by working to pass numerous resolutions.

“Our assembly will approach the topic of diversity again,” Kim assured, according to the Sun. “Sometimes, just educating our peers would be a huge step in the right direction to solving the campus climate.”

Caving in to dominant campus politics

Cornell President Marth Pollack and Cornel Vice President for Student Life Ryan Lombardi forwarded the politically correct tone on campus by opening the floor to a forum that parroted Torres’ insistence that little action has been seen on campus to get rid of pro-border wall speech.

“I know that you don’t want to hear ‘I’m sorry’ anymore, but I don’t think it would be fair without me saying that I am beyond devastated and beyond disgusted by what happened,” Pollack proclaimed before students – according to the Sun – insisting that even though Cornell does not have an action plan to resist those adhering to Trump’s border policy, she is “committed” to the pro-illegal alien campus movement.

She promised angry Left-leaning students that she is working to appease their anti-Trump cause.

“I don’t have a response yet about what we are going to do and what we are not going to do, but we are looking into options,” Pollack added, according to the Sun. “Things like facilitating conversation, holding the fraternities responsible, serious investments in getting more faculty and counselors of color.”

Stamping out the First Amendment?

But even though Pollack indicated that she is caving into Leftist students demanding that action be taken against hate speech, she did emphasize that she will continue to champion free speech on campus.

“[Such incidents should be handled with] things like facilitating conversation, holding the fraternities responsible [and investing] in getting more faculty and counselors of color,” she asserted, according to Campus Reform.

And not all SA members stand against free speech, as SA Representative Olivia Corn argues that changing Cornell’s speech codes to prohibit so-called “hate speech” would not set good precedent on campus.

“While I don’t condone what the person said, universities should not be able to punish free speech,” Corn told Campus Reform. “[Even though Cornell is private and can enforce what it wants, it would be] overstepping its bounds [if it were to begin] prosecuting students for hate speech.”

Despite Lombardi’s declared support of anti-wall protesters, she is still teetering on the fence over the issue regarding what will be done to appease the unsettled pro-immigration activists on campus.

“Cornell has yet to indicate that it will accede to the students’ demands for ‘action, but did condemn the incident in an email to the student body,” she wrote in a campus email to students Campus Reform reported. “I am concerned by what is the continued marginalization of many members of the Cornell community. I strongly condemn behavior that is antithetical to our proud history of inclusion, and it is incumbent upon all of us to uphold Cornell’s founding principles.”

However, it is stressed that the whole uproar could be much ado about nothing, as the chant instigating the Leftist backlash is believed to have been started by a liberal mocking the president.

“A source who wishes to remain confidential, however, told Campus Reform that the individual who started the chants was also from the Latinx community, and was just ‘joking around and making fun of [President] Trump,’” Campus Reform’s Neetu Chandak impressed.

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From the article above: “Members of Cornell University’s student assembly (SA) are calling on university administrators to punish members of a fraternity who chanted ‘build a wall’ last week following President Donald Trump’s decision to end DACA,” TheBlaze announced. “Last Wednesday, one day after Trump’s decision, Latino students heard members of the Zeta Psi fraternity chanting ‘build the wall’ – a reference to Trump’s promise to build a wall on the southern U.S.-Mexico border.” Also known as communist snowflake garbage dump trash. Move this communist trash to North Korea and Cuba, where there is no freedom of speech, because that is what these communists want!

Typical left wing snowflake propaganda. Anybody who disagrees with these little communist maggots is using hate speech. Employers, do not hire anyone from that bogus university. You are not getting an educated useful employee, you are getting an indoctrinated – not educated – left wing zealot who will be of no value to you.

“…it is stressed that the whole uproar could be much ado about nothing, as the chant instigating the Leftist backlash is believed to have been started by a liberal mocking the president.

“A source who wishes to remain confidential, however, told Campus Reform that the individual who started the chants was also from the Latinx community, and was just ‘joking around and making fun of [President] Trump,’” Campus Reform’s Neetu Chandak impressed.”

Just a thought… Couldn’t (shouldn’t) this be deemed ‘hate speech’ from the left. I find it very offensive and hateful. Any one else of the same opinion?

I’ll stop calling for a wall when all the liberal crybabies stop locking their doors and leaving the keys in their unlocked BMWs. Everyone has the right to protect their property and their country from uninvited guests. And when they do get here illegally we damned sure shouldn’t be paying for their support/subsistence.

Over on an ‘adult’ site, someone pointed out a strange illogic with liberals..
They all are pro-illegal aliens, in wanting amnesty. BUT they are also the most responsible for crack downs on the sex industry and hookers..

“Irving Torres – an 18-year-old Hispanic student at Cornell – insisted that enforcing the law against illegal immigrants is nothing less than hateful intimidation.”
the INSANITY is truly running rampant in this country!!! They need to wake up from their fantasy dreams.. NO NON-CITIZENS have any right to be in this country … coming here is a privilege NOT a right…
Wonder how many of these idiots live with NO walls in their homes??? I guess with their logic, they are spreading hate speech living inside of walls where thieves, murderers, rapists, etc… can’t enter the home if they want….
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH… A wall is NOT hate speech.. it speaks of a country protecting the citizens who live there…. Protecting it from illegal entry… EVERY COUNTRY HAS THAT RIGHT TO KEEP OUT ILLEGALS… They want to come here, DO IT LEGALLY!!!

Exactly and if a citizen or groups of American citizens were to go into their countries of origins and try to stir up this type of mob frenzy you would be beaten with riot sticks, kicks and punches, thrown into the back of a police van and taken to either one of their sanitariums or re-education camps until you got your mind right. So of course they feel pretty entitled and special that they can waltz into this country without fear of any repercussions, spout their ignorance and even be rewarded with free tuition, free housing, free medical care and EBT benefits. While veterans who fought for this country get shafted with mediocre health care and benefits that they actually have to wait to receive medical care and treatment.

“Coming here is a privilege, not a right” is sane thinking, something the social justice warriors do not wish to hear. Logic is not their strong suit, and it shows in their demands for disastrous condemnation of rights, law and order.

I once had an experience with another entitled Cornell student. Back in the 80s, I was trying to get into the computer programming biz; the old fashioned way; by taking college courses in programming and applying everywhere. Eventually, I got an entry level position as a work-study programmer, working alongside a female Cornell grad; who had been an English major! She’d received further training from Aetna but still couldn’t write a program to add two numbers together; She’s probably a VP by now!

i have lost all patience that i had for idiots and there tolerance movement.
i live in the greatest country god ever created and its slowly being killed by no nothing snowflakes who no absoloutley nothing except what the hippie socialist proffessor has filled there little heads with.i have no tolerance i live in america the law says nothing about having to be tolerant to any one or anything.
i want laws enforced i want peoples feelings hurt because it needs to happen.
young people today do not know what NO means and they need to learn it before the real world kicks them in the teeth.
LIBERALISM WILL BE AMERICAS DEATH.

I spent a good chunk of last night dreaming that the TV show under the dome, sprouted domes over ALL OF These liberal cesspool indoctrination centers.. AND unlike the show, there was no mystical way out. No ‘queen bee’. JUST AN inpenetrable dome that would eventually suffocate every living thing inside..

Either the US is a sovereign nation or it’s not. It’s time to take action against those student associations and colleges that espouse restricting peaceful advocacy of enforcing the laws, including preventing ILLEGAL immigration.

Decertify and deny student dues of student organizations that call for harming students who support the law and removing the accreditation of schools refusing to protect free speech along with withdrawing all federal funding including that of federal student loans.

Is Irving Torres in this country legally? If he isn’t, contact immigration to have him deported! These little snowflakes need to grow up and realize that, if you are not in this country legally, you are a criminal!

That little **** has no idea what ‘hateful intimidation” is. These kids need to be put in their place. We, the Taxpayers, don’t give a **** what they like or don’t like. They have been given awards all their life for showing up . Now they “THINK” they know everything there is to know. They need to learn to keep their mouth shut. Nobody has warned them that what they do and say will be with them forever. Companies don’t hire troublemakers.

The wall-fence-barricade-electronics, etc. is a common sense approach used successfully for thousands of years and even in present time (southern Mexico, around Vatican City, eastern Europe, Israel, etc.). Fences make good neighbors. Walls do the same. An enforceable southern border will save U.S. taxpayers much money over decades to come.

Just as the miles of heavy duty fencing my father erected with my help well over a half-century ago is still standing and protects the border of the property both for us and for our neighbors. Build the wall!

Very true. Obama rolled out the Red carpet for illegals to enter the US. Why do it legally when they could walk across and get all the benefits and more of a citizen. So what is the issue with liberal Zealots? It is all about power. Liberals want to control, you name it, and illegals will vote for them to achieve that!!

Its to the point i say to hell with a wall.. ERECT A damn death field.. 10 miles deep, 1000 miles up.. so not even those sneaking across on planes will pass into the US, without going through the death field.

I don’t buy this line for a second. What is a wall to an immigrant who has a legal gate to go through?

The wall is about stopping drug runners, gang violence, skirting existing immigration laws, costing jobs of natural born and legal immigrants alike. Sounds like the illegal immigrants and those who defend them are spreading a lot of disdain and even hate for America and American citizens.

What part of illegal entry do they not understand? How about someone enters their home and takes their belongings to show them. They are mad because they will not get their free college like that roach Obama promised. They are a sad part of our history. I blame their parents for their lack of common sense.

I say if they feel a wall is hate speech, then fine. LETS REMOVE ALL WALLS in the country period.

No more walls/fences around houses.. No more gated communities. No more secured prisons. NO WALLS ANYWHERE.. THEN see how long these whiners take to complain about the crooks having their way in their cities and towns!

I wonder what they are going to call it, assuming we still have a country, when the same illegals are taking their jobs [so they can pay off college] for 1/2 to 2/3 the pay they want to be paid?
In addition, cupcake why don’t you and your buddies head for Mexico and make the demands on them their illegal friends are making here and see how that works out.

Another college administration wimps out to appease the (stupid) politically correct, while those seeking to maintain law, order, and The Constitution are marginalized. Students here illegally should feel unsafe because they are criminals! DACA was a ploy to make lawbreaking acceptable but in reality as non-citizens they should not enjoy any of the protections granted those who have shown their allegiance to the United States. We have immigration laws and they should be enforced just as other countries enforce theirs.
As to what constitutes hate-speech, why does the left get to decide since so much of theirs is very hateful and backed by violence if they don’t get their way?

The problem is not protests on campus. That’s a part of college now & back when. The danger is protesters calling for punishment of others based on their own twisted opinions.To add injury to insult we have too many ethically depraved, college administrations who support perversions of reason and order to save careers and reputations among the deep state Soros type mafia. That’s the real wall of hate! This country and culture will only go forward after all sides complete their carnage so morality and common sense have a chance for rebirth…under God.

The problem is not protests on campus. That’s a part of college now & back when. The danger is protesters calling for punishment of others based on their own twisted opinions.To add injury to insult we have too many ethically depraved, college administrations who support perversions of reason and order to save careers and reputations among the deep state Soros type mafia. That is the real wall of hate.This country and culture will only go forward after all sides complete their carnage so morality and common sense have a chance for rebirth…under God.

I was born in México, and at some point in my younger years I was as rebel as these idiots are. I used to vote Democrat, because most Hispanic names appear on their ballots. I thought Hispanic leaders would defend my true values of family, traditional marriage, abortion, government spending, Constitution, traditional Faith…etc. It was until I joined the military that I actually saw the truth. The Democrat party and all liberals are out there to DESTROY our nation, our values and to deliver her into the hands of our foes. Trumps’ election has been nothing short of “miraculous”. We have one more chance to keep our country, though we have an enormous damage to fix, thanks to our previous administration and George Soros, et al.

As Mexican-born I was as rebel as these idiots are. I used to vote Democrat, because most Hispanic names appear on their ballots. I thought Hispanic leaders would defend my true values of family, traditional marriage, abortion, government spending, Constitution, traditional Faith…etc. It was until I joined the military that I actually saw the truth. The Democrat party and all liberals are out there to DESTROY our nation, our values and to deliver her into the hands of our foes. Trumps’ election has been nothing short of “miraculous”. We have one more chance to keep our country, though we have an enormous damage to fix, thanks to our previous administration and George Soros, et al.

This is just another Liberal School, catering to the Politically Correct idiots. Of course, building a wall makes sense, but these snowflakes are not able to comprehend that ! These people would like EVERY person that FEELS like coming to America to come here without any problems. Just walk over the border, “Whether you are a rapist, a murderer, a terrorist, or a drug dealer, and we will welcome you” ! That is about as senseless as it gets !